Which processes do you disable? I know there are lots of "guides" out there, but I understood they are generally of dubious practical value. I disable all network/internet related and the printer service. I only do it to free up a bit of memory, and if I'm not going to use it, why have it running? …

If you have more than 256MB RAM and a PIII-800 or faster processor always go for Win2K. That sweet NT kernel.. Phil really needs to rebuild that Athlon 1GHz PC with Win2K to appreciate just how good the OS is so that he can better understand why people shat on WinMe. I love Win2K. It runs and looks …

I'm planning to buy a new computer case in black with side window, dust filters, RGB LEDs and silent case fans in the future. Pondering about that one that Philscomputerlab built/reviewed one with the year 1998 gaming rig. But there are many others by different brands. So... I'll wait and drink a …

I put the 3Dfx Voodoo 3 3000 AGP in my drawer. I did the different way. I installed UT/U Gold on my current modern machine and simply copied the entire game folder to the old machines with a 4GB USB Stick. The game ran very well. Original version without the unofficial community patch. Yes, the …

If you're going to run UT/U Gold using the GoG installers make sure you have DX9 installed or else you get errors that are annoying to click through before the game launches. Also, NFS Porsche Unleashed was a pain to get working under Win2k for me and it just ended up crashing before each race so I …

I would try DirectX 7.0a. http://www.oldversion.com/windows/directx-7-0a (I think this site is reputable, but I haven't tried this download myself.) It's a good site, just hard to find the right download link at first. I was actually looking for a version of DX myself and forgot about this site. …

Jorpho wrote: Every single SLI setup ever devised has "3 video cards in one system", sir. Hahaha. I was a few drinks in when I wrote that intelligent piece! 😵 Derp.

I think having 3 video cards in one system must be giving Windows a headspin. Hard to say though I'm not that experienced with SLI.

It started a few months ago when I was bored and decided to read up about the Glide API. :cool: After that I got more and more interested in building a old PC with a 3Dfx card. After a few weeks I picked up a old PC with everything I needed, especially the Voodoo 3. I struggled for months trying to …

its a quake 2 with better graphics still now that i've seen it, its still pretty bad in some places and would probably run bad on an old box like mine; Well its running with everything on low. It does look much, much better with all settings turned up. I wouldn't quite say its just Quake 2 with …

Quake 4 had a awesome single player campaign and I recommend it. It uses a highly optimized version of the Doom 3 engine so it ran like butter with any decent system at the time. Even my GTX 960 2GB would probably get hundreds of FPS @ 1080p. 😉

Bought a Creative Sound Blaster 16 ISA (CT4170) and a ASUS V3800 32MB (TNT2) for 20 bucks (CDN)!

I remember first playing Crysis on a P4 @ 2.85Ghz with 2GB DDR RAM, and a Radeon x850XT PE 256MB. Times have changed. 😎

The lame part is that the motherboard, a p6bx-an from Tekram normally does have onboard sound, but of course the one I acquired does not :( I can even see where the solder points are for the outputs and sound chip. Would my V3 fry itself without extra cooling? I was going to put a fan on the heat …

Thanks everyone. meljor, yes it is the PCI version. My PIII is OCed to 560Mhz. Not a massive difference but it does help.

Ok. It sounds like you guys would prefer it to be in the PIII system. Me too. Hopefully there would be Win2k drivers for a Live! card or SB16.

Hey guys just discovered the forum and fell in love with it, a great resource for retro gaming and retro systems. I have two computers and I'm wondering what one I should use with my Voodoo 3 3000 16MB (@186/186). Both run Win2k Pro SP4 and they both get just under 50fps in the Quake3 demo running …